siveness,” and besides that, when thentot went to school, the other kids mightngive her a hard time about the namenStranger. But Mountain Spring? Nonproblem.nSlavin was a hero to Ffrenchy’s peers.nHe was antiestablishment and againstnthe war—a real guru. But what he triednto tell them about political consciousnessnwas generally lost in transmission,nand their feedback and lifestyle werenequally...

Re-elect the President, Liddy enthusiasticallyndirected the establishment of annextralegal intelligence unit charged withnundermining the Democrats’ efforts tonunseat Richard Nixon in 1972. Why didnLiddy, an ex-FBI agent and former hardlinenassistant district attorney, eagerlynagree to violate the law? Money? Fame?nPolitical preferment? The allurementsnthat make most men burn with a whitehotnlust left Liddy cold. Liddy acted for anstartlingly...

In Liddy’s world of triumphant willnall must be directed toward the creationnof an Ubermensch, a dominant, godlikenfigure who rises above the weakness andnfrailty of other men. For Liddy this urgentook, in part, the form of self-masterynthrough the endurance of pain. To steelnhis will Liddy began in the early 1960’snto burn the flesh of his left...

Xhere is little plot, and at times itnseems that time itself has been lost: thenstory, set earlier in this century andnbrought up to the present, could havenhappened yesterday or tomorrow. Notnunlike a believer’s chant, the novelnflows, carrying emotion without argument,ncloser to music than to philosophy.nAs Morris describes the women’snchores, finished only to be started again,nhe...

Sharon. The contrast is most vivid:nHer arms lowered and dangling, hernshort hair tousled, Alexandra resemblednan exotic, stork-legged bird. Shensaid, ‘Who said let there be light.? Hendid. Who saw that all of it was good.’nHe did. Who said let us make him innour own image.’ He did. Who saidnlet them have dominion over thenwhole shebang? He...

be placed on a truly stable basis. Sincenthe West cannot let its vital oil suppliesnfall into the hands of the Soviets, ornKhomeini, or Qaddafi-style fanatics,nit is not impossible that outright militarynoccupation—even a form of colonialnrule—may someday be required. Thisnprospect, however distasteful, shouldnhave been examined.nJL hough sensible enough in describingnour present crisis, Nixon is not veryngood...

Two Married PronounsnHerbert Gold: He/She; ArbornHouse; New York.nby Christina MurphynH e is the devoted, if somewhat infantilenand dependent, husband whondoes not want to see his marriage end.nShe is the post-women’s lib wife, insecurenin the security she has known,nseeking fulfillment in a nebulously definednfreedom, sure of only one thing:nmarriage and motherhood have trappednher and drained her...

and to no one’s surprise, becomes intenselynjealous and possessive of him,nendorsing once again the do-as-I-saynot-as-I-donphilosophy She lives bynthroughout the novel. Add a long, totallynirrelevant scene in which He spendsnmonths watching a young woman atnbreakfast at the Morning Kettle, onlynto be rebuffed when He introduces himselfnand endeavors to make his “move,”nand the blandness of the novel...

solved if only we could get women backninto the fold where they belong.nThat these issues must be considerednin their true complexity, marked byncontradiction and paradox, is rightfullynurged upon us by Carl Degler in AtnOdds, his well-researched and nonpolemicalnhistory of women and the familynin America from the revolution tonthe present. Faced with the task of presentingnan...

natural demands for both private andnpublic, cooperative and competitive,ngroup and individual expression. Or asnDegler makes the point:nThe family . . . like the great traditionalnmovements, is an anti-individualisticninstitution. In fact, its denialnof individualism is the source of thenfamily’s strong attraction for manynmen and women today. For at leastntwo centuries the best known alternativento the individualism,...

apy,” and “The Future of Marriage andnthe Family”), each with its own crispnintroduction, this college reader attemptsnto provide a spectrum of viewsnon everything affecting the family—nfrom the ambivalence of woman’s passivenrole (the constraints placed on allnof us by conventional stereotypes ofnnormal masculinity and femininity) tonthe tragedy of divorce (we can changenpartners like we change laundry...

desk and he could pronounce Arabicnnames. He had highly visible assignmentsnin the office of the Secretary ofnDefense, with the Joint Chiefs of Staffnand with the National Security Council.nThe NSC lent him to the CIA and eventuallynprovided his “cover” during hisnsojourn in the Middle East in the 1950’s.nAlong the way he caught the eye ofnAllen Dulles,...

the British and French, and/or 3) JohnnFoster Dulles raced through Eveland’snhead. He concluded that the U.S. hadnno business interfering in Syrian politics.nWhat he did not realize was thatnthe situation in Syria, from the standpointnof the moderates, had become insufferable.nHistorian Nabil M. Kaylaninwrites of this period that the country,n”traditional at heart, was being radicalizednby a determined...

fer it to the outside world. Charles Mansonnis supposed to have requested not tonbe released when he was last in prisonnbefore his involvement in the Tate-La-nBianca murders. He would have beennno less a prisoner had the authoritiesnyielded to his request, though he wasnin prison by choice.nJilizabeth Bentley called her accountnof her years in the Communist...

it has colored this account.nThere is very little in our literaturenabout labor organizing. Many historyntextbooks give the impression that labornunions come into being spontaneouslynbecause of worker grievances. SidneynLens provides a partial correction to thisnin his description of the difficult job ofnorganizing and maintaining a union.nHe provides considerable information,ntoo, on the socialist backgrounds ofnmany labor leaders....

audience is not told what to believe,nbut is shown that the manner in whichna man gives or receives a blow revealsnhis nature.nThe novel opens with blows—fromnclubs, fists and feet—rained upon thenrecruits by Tech Sergeant Krupe andnBuck Sergeant Bennett, who give thennew arrivals a reception more suitednto a concentration camp than a militarynreservation. Corporal Sanders, an...

and even the deliberate raising of peoplenlike cattle to be tattooed so that theirnheads could be cut off and sold.nCould this be paradise? It would seemnthat perhaps civilization, by comparison,nisn’t quite as bad as one thought.nHow could anyone ever have thoughtndifferently.’ That, in fact, is the burdennof Daws’s work. He shows how the ambivalencenof Europeans—simultaneouslynattracted...

have it, the repression of all that is noblenin man in favor of contrived and corruptingnrelationships. Its essence liesnin the control and direction of creativenenergies. This implies, of necessity, thendeferral of gratification. But, even morenimportant, no directed and controlledncreativity is possible without the tolerancenof varying ideas and without civilitynto govern the discourse concerningnthem. It is...

pledge of faith, not the City of God ornof Marx, but the city called Peace ofnMind.” But having rejected Christianitynand politics, they are, like Querrynin A Burnt-Out Case, neverthelessntroubled by their own faithlessness andn”keep fingering it like a sore.” Theynmove through a desolate moral landscape,nunable to understand, as the priestntells Rosie at the end of...

no clear answers, and the allegorical obscuritynof the book may well account fornits failure to reach the best-seller lists.nRegardless of any precise meaning,nthe novel reinforces the observation ofnthe failed priest in The Power and thenGlory: “the world’s unhappy whethernyou are rich or poor—unless you are ansaint, and there aren’t many of those.”nEach of the Toads...

In FocusnSymons’s ScholarshipnDonald Symons: The Evolutionnof Human Sexuality;nOxford University Press; New York.nby Becki KlutenMr. Symons, professor of anthropologynat the University ofnCalifornia, has written a scholarlyntreatise primarily for thosenin the anthropology field. Psychologists,nfeminists and socialnengineers will be sorely disappointednif they turn to The Evolutionnof Human Sexuality tonprove any of their theories ofnequality.nDeclaring for total value-neutralitynand forcibly...

is built on wide discontent basednon often genuine grievances,nwhich inspire grandiose illusions,nwhich are, in turn, fed byndemogogic speeches of leadersnwho are themselves deluded,ncynical and monomaniacal. Thenbrief spasm of revolt was characterizednby wholesale, mercilessnkilling that startles the readernwith its savagery. There arenno heroes in The Year of thenFrench, only sad intimations ofnlike years to come, elsewhere.n(EJW)...

ScreennThe Portrait of an Artist as a Kvetch and Other TrivianStardust Memories; Written andndirected by Woody Allen; UnitednArtists.nMy Bodyguard; Written by AlannOrmsby; Directed by Tony Bill;n20th-century Fox.nHopscotch; Written by Bryan Forbesnand Brian Garfield; Directed bynRonald Neame; Avco EmbassynPictures.nby Eric ShapearonWoody Allen has a sense of irony.nHe has neither a sense of compassionnnor a sense of...

humanness. Faced with unprepossessingnplatitudes of looks and behavior, Mr.nAllen does not know how to generatenpainful sarcasm; instead, he begins tonkvetch that life has sentenced him toncoexist with triviality. The movie beginsnwith a sequence in which Mr. Allen isnin a railway coach filled with appallinglynsordid human faces; he seems very, verynill at ease. He seems not...

ArtnChina’s Treasures in BronzenDoes the nature of the creative impulsenremain the same as it wanders,nfrom artifacts in bronze, jade and terrancotta made by those artisan-artists whonlived along the Yellow River under thenXia dynasty (21st century B.C.) throughnEgyptian architects, Greek sculptors,nTrecento painters, Dutch masters,nFrench impressionists, the Bauhaus, allnthe way down the line to the—excusez lancomparaison—Wsih Disney...

MusicnRecordsnby Doug RamseynFreddy Hubbard, once an enfant terriblenof jazz trumpet, is now 42 and formidable.nHubbard is more impressivenon other people’s records than on hisnown, but there are indications, even onnhis commercially bland Columbia albums,nthat he is shedding his jazz-rocknfusion persona. His most recent recording,n”Skagly” (Columbia FC 36418),nbreaks away from the synthesized routinesnof his four previous...

came from Oklahoma), Wiley did to bigcitynblues what Edward Hopper did tonAmerican urban realism in the arts:nshe imbued it with unexpectedly subtlenemotionalities.nCommodore Records Company recentlynrendered a great service to allnincorrigible sentimentalists: they issuednthe album /. Stacy and Friends.nFriends on the disc include Bud Freeman,nMuggsy Spanier, Specs Powellnand, of course, Lee Wiley. Her “Downnto Steamboat Tennessee”...

America’s history, which is in part thenhistory of the Americas. Western culturentook centuries to seek roots here,nand the settling-in is not yet complete.nA short visit to the region teaches onlynthat a rich heritage is at stake, as communistnencroachment continues and increases.nFour hundred years of nearlynunrelenting violent changes have taughtnCentral Americans to look at the futurenwith...

ous shelter for independent art, the onlynasylum for the human and intellectualnsubstances that communist totalitarianismndeems its most lethal enemies andnis resolved to eradicate.nThe Religious Heritage AwardnProbably in a moment of contritionnor nostalgia, President Carter namednOctober 6, 1980 as a National Day ofnPrayer. Religious Heritage of America,nInc. took him at his word and, under thenleadership of...

Editor^s Commentn1.nThe grand show of our Hfetime is the half-a-century-oldndebate about the American promise and American power—nand what we have done to and with both. Soon after WorldnWar II, something clicked in the American culture, and,never since, Americans have been supposed to react mentallynonly to preordained liberal stimuli. Academia, the opinionshapingnindustries and Hollywood have joined...

proved rationally and empirically wrong. The contemporarynconservative is a descendant of Whig liberalism, whose coatnof arms was antiabsolutism—in thinking, political conduct,nsocial affairs. In point of fact, so is the contemporary liberal.nHowever, the latter has perverted Whiggism and corruptednit with European doctrines of moral coercion. As thingsnstand now, the American liberal is firmly dedicated to thenidea...

opinions &. ViewsnThat Hollow CorenRichard Sennett: Authority; AlfrednA. Knopf; New York.nby Edward J. LynchnWi, ‘ithin what used to be called WesternnCivilization philosophers have developedntwo justifications for authority.nBroadly construed, they are explanationsnbased upon revelation and explanationsnbased upon reason.nThe Bible is the most profound statementnof the tradition of revelationnknown to Western people, but the Biblenoffers little prospect...

for this inequality; thus his version ofnauthority has as many potential basesnas there are grounds of human differentiation.nAge, wealth, sex and variousnforms of status (elected office, worknrole, family ties and credentials, fornexample) all form potential bases fornthose pursuing some form of dominationnover others.nOennett has a desire to display hisnown claim to authority, of course, andnthat...

Sunken SouffleesnJohn Kenneth Galbraith: Annals ofnan Abiding Liberal; Houghton MifflinnCo.; Boston.nby James Hitchcockn-A.11 authors must be more than anlittle egotistical, assuming as they donthat there are people who will pay moneynfor what they have to say. How muchnmore egotistical is the author who collectsnhis stray essays into a single volume,nassuming that there are peoplenwho will...

even recognizes the question.nIn India, Galbraith was asked by anreporter liow he and his wife had stayednmarried so long and how they had raisedntheir children. The question itself saidnmuch about the perceived state of thenWestern societies which liberalism hasncreated. Galbraith’s reply: “I enlargednon the need to devote as little time asnpossible to one’s offspring lest...

Sixty years ago J. B. IJury, the eminentnEnglish historian of classical antiquity,nwrote The Idea of Progress.nBury’s book surveyed the history of thatnenergizing idea in the West and, at thensame time, marked the end of the idea’snreign, for the Great Depression of then1930’s, the Holocaust, the SecondnWorld War, the Gulag and the specternof nuclear annihilation dealt...

this impulse today than the advocates ofnHberation theology and those leadersnof the World Council of Churches whonbestowed blessings—and money—uponnthe black butchers of Rhodesia? Progressivenas it may be, millennialismnforms a volatile and potentially destructivenstrain within Christianity.nRobert Nisbet longs to bolster Americans’nsagging confidence in the ideanof progress. But should we not thinkntwice before undertaking this task.”nWithout siding...

intensity of the new coloration. But letnus recall that Mr. Salisbury has alwaysnbeen the most chameleonic of thenTimes s editors. He was the first to jumpnon the left-wing bandwagon of the 60’s,nand he has now changed his coloring sonquickly and drastically that it rendersnthe observer dizzy and breathless. I havenno doubt that the New York...

and-chowder society … spoke of Rosenthalnwith awe as a ‘terrific anti-Communist.’n”nSo William F. Buckley, Jr. was overawed.nIs this why his magazine becamenanticommunist too.-‘ “Richard Clurman,nanother friend and club member, feltnthat Abe’s political roots lay in the coldnwar.” A real anticommunist cold warriornat the helm of the New York Times.nBut who was more rigorously anticommunist,nthe New...

objective criterion the most thorough,nmost complete, most responsiblennewspaper that time, money,ntalent and technology in the secondnhalf of the twentieth century hadnbeen able to produce.nAs I Studied Mr. Salisbury’s book, Infound only one accusation that he failednto hurl in the face of the New YorknTimes: that all the female employeesnare the most beautiful women on earth,nwhile...

old friend and a stepdaughter. The imagenof FeUx Leitner which emerges fromnthese sources is contradictory. Everyonenacknowledges his brilliance andnability; some admire his charm and humanenprinciples; but others find himncrafty, calculating, cold, inhumanly objective,nmonstrously egotistical. Roger,nthe would-be biographer, faces a dilemmanconcerning his subject: “The issuenhas to be, Did he care more for truthnor for the fame...

is skillful and imaginative in using figurativenlanguage, her sentences arensometimes weakened by vague or abstractnelements: “Experience wasnbanked up around the room, a hugenwave about to break,” or “as to pleasure,nhe was suspicious of anything that relievednhis feelings.” With Auchinclossnone is unaware of style; with Hazzardnone cannot be unaware of it because itnis constantly in the...

Our BettersnRobert Stephen Spitz: Barefoot innBabylon; Viking Press; New York.nTony Sanchez: Up and Down withnthe Rolling Stones; Morrow QuillnPaperbacks; New York.nby John O’SullivannA famous slogan of the late 60’snboasted that a million people had gatherednfor love, peace and music at thenWoodstock pop festival and yet nobodynhad been killed. Until I read these twonbooks, that had...

Lawyer Avarice and Parson Sly of thenRestoration comedy—he withheld hisnsignature, needed for a financial settlementnwith the bank, until his partners,nMr. Roberts and Mr. Rosenmann,nwhose financial straits made the settlementnimperative, had paid each of themnf31,250 to dissolve the partnership.nAnd when the company they had leftnclambered eventually, and unexpectedly,ninto the black. Avarice and Sly wentnahead and sued...

ditional trousers and ties, writes racynand readable gossip. But a question atnonce arises: can an untrustworthy valetnbe a reliable witness? Three clues suggestnso. Much of what he reveals isnconfirmed by occasional interviews withnthe Rolling Stones themselves, by othernjournalistic accounts and by the proceedingsnof police courts. Mr. Sanchez,nsecondly, does not fail to confess his ownnsins. And,...

taking—none of them treated with conventionalndistaste, some with the ambiguitynthat dare not speak its name. Annatmosphere of lurking violence and unrestrainednsexuality hangs about theirnconcerts, which often conclude withnriots, assaults on the stage and injuriesnto the police. Indeed, at the notoriousnAltamont concert (where our old friend,nMr. Michael Lang, popped up as a “consultant”),namid the general mayhem...

devices as the granting of academic degrees:na decision-maker has some justificationnfor considering the holders ofndegrees on the whole superior to collegendropouts. Though the generalizationnmay not be valid in individual cases, itnis usually not worth the additional costnof discovering which ones these are.nIdeologies, Sowell notes, are anotherninstrument by which a society mayneconomize on the costs of...

Warren Court’s ruling against schoolnsegregation, for example, was based innlarge part upon a “study subsequentlyndevastated as invalid, if not fraudulent.”nBut since Brown v. Board of Educationnwrought such a profound revolutionnin our jurisprudence, it is almost unthinkablento question the validity of then”knowledge” which underlay that particularndecision. Policy is more importantnthan truth.nOowell argues that intellectual manipulatorsnof ideas...

Ariadne Without a Clew of ThreadnNina Schneider: The Woman WhonLived in a Prologue; Houghton MifflinnCo.; Boston.nby Edward J. WalshnA oward the end of this flamboyantntestament to contemporary feminismnas the source of spice in a woman’s life,nthe narrator, now an elderly woman, isnsitting in the garden of her estatenin May, apparently enjoying the sightsnand sounds of...

narration, is by now trite, suggesting asnit does a waif crying out for est or holisticnego immolation. By the time the dotingnAriadne reaches for her VillagenVoice, she is more a caricature than annaspiring author who can’t find the timento write. As a woman who seems tonknow less about life as she grows older,nAriadne finally admits...